(ebook)-ASP

  In early 1996 Microsoft had a fi rst stab at improving the situation by including the Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) tech- nology as part of Internet Information Server. ISAPI is an extension to the Windows Win32 API. It was developed as a way to create Web server software that interacts with the inner workings of Internet Information Server, bringing what was claimed to be a fi ve-fold increase in performance.As you can well imagine from this description, as well as the immediate performance increase, it also had a side effect of increasing the complexity of the development for the programmer. It wasn’t for the faint hearted, and it takes some serious hardcore programming knowledge to do ISAPI applications right.As well as ISAPI,